TEDxMaid Marian Way

Speakers

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• Angel Rose

  Cybersecurity Professional, Career Coach & Founder

  Angel is a speaker, Career Coach, and Founder of Walk with Angel. She identifies as a recovering rescuer, someone whose deep compassion for others meant she spent years trying to carry everyone’s emotional burdens on her own shoulders. Driven by a passion for building stronger, healthier human connections, Angel helps people rethink the line between caring for someone and accidentally holding them back. Through her coaching and speaking, she shows how turning over-protection into genuine trust heals relationships, prevents burnout, and empowers the people we love to step into their own strength.

• Anthony Adejuwon

  Civic tech engineer

  Anthony Adejuwon is a civic-tech founder that builds public-interest technology and puts data in the hands of local communities, so people who have long been last in line for digital tools can live inclusively in a world built to exclude them. After years of engaging communities and governments, and as a civic-tech project manager who helps change makers ship solutions, his argument is simple: build it before others do.

• Ash Hibberb

  Public speaker, Trainer, and Entrepreneur

  Ash Hibberd is a public speaker, trainer, and entrepreneur with over 18 years of diverse professional experience, a proven track record of success, and a unique ability to connect with audiences on a profound level. Based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Ash has built a reputation as an engaging and inspiring speaker who uses personal and professional experiences to motivate others to embrace growth, overcome adversity, and achieve their full potential.

• Erica Farmer

  Speaker, Author & Learning Specialist

  Erica Farmer is a speaker, author and learning specialist exploring the relationship between AI, work and human potential. Drawing on more than 25 years in learning and development, she helps people make sense of technological change in practical, human terms. She is a LinkedIn Learning instructor, hosts the AI for the Average Joe podcast and is the author of AI for People Professionals. Her work asks: how can we use AI to make life and work genuinely better?

• Gary Parsons

  Speaker, Facilitator & Mentor

  Gary Parsons built a business from scratch, grew it fast, and won a major industry award in 2017, the same year he lost himself completely inside it. He got selfish, put himself first, and the business doubled. Now a business mentor and speaker, Gary makes the case that being selfish isn’t the opposite of success, it’s what makes it sustainable. Build on your own terms, or someone else’s growth will eventually cost you everything.

• Peter Bayley-Hill

  Director, Business Skills Trainer

  Named by the BBC, the makers of Dragons’ Den, as the “Entrepreneur who Floored the Dragons”, Peter would become acclaimed for teaching his unique practical business skills. As an undiagnosed dyslexic child, he was called “Peter the Speaker” as he was unable to write or read fluently but excelled at creating and telling stories. He is now a passionate advocate of entrepreneurship for people who might struggle in a conventional workplace.

• Richard Duggins

  Consultant Psychiatrist; Associate Medical Director

  Dr Richard Duggins is a Consultant Psychiatrist, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Associate Medical Director for Leadership and Culture in an NHS Foundation Trust. He leads a national award-winning staff wellbeing service in the North of England and is also an executive coach, author and podcast host, whose work focusses on burnout, workplace culture, leadership and how organisations help people thrive.

• Sarah Pocklington

  Leadership Expert

  Sarah Pocklington spent more than 30 years working in learning and development, designing and running in-person workshops. Now she focuses her attention on something that most of us were never taught, yet do every day. Sarah's work explores why people avoid the camera in online meetings, and how the host's behaviour and responses can influence whether someone chooses to switch on their camera and join in. Sarah firmly believes that cameras don't create connection, people do.